Author Archives: kristianr
I have a dream
My dream is to one day write my very own RTS-game Just kidding, only serious. Well, at least now I have completed one step in the process by writing an a-star path finding library https://github.com/krumberg/astar
Podcastfs now works on OS X
I spent some hours this morning hunting down a few bugs that caused podcastfs not to work under OS X (MacPorts). I also verified that it still compiles and runs fine under Debian testing. https://github.com/krumberg/podcastfs
RObject
RObject is a library I wrote a while ago that adds single inheritance object oriented programming support to ANSI C. It’s very small and can be customized and extended if so needed. Features that are not implemented but could easily … Continue reading
git: the stupid NOSQL database
There are so many ways to use git. Manage your source code, handle large directories of files with git-annex, run a decentralized wiki or blog. View this talk and get inspired The speaker is the author of Gollum, the wiki … Continue reading
Some git workflows
In this post I will describe some of the git workflows I use. Stay tuned for more of these. Please comment and tell me if I do something really stupid and also please add suggestions on how I can optimize … Continue reading
On the importance of backups and distributed version control
I care a lot about my data (and so should you). Because of this I keep all of my code and all my documents under version control using git. Media files are not modified very often which makes version control … Continue reading
Emulate Time Machine using rsync
Many people using a Mac love Time Machine. It’s a simple and (often enough) powerful tool for performing incremental backups with file history. It relies on hard links. For people using GNU/Linux or for Mac users who desire a bit … Continue reading
How I use git-annex
I use git-annex for managing my movie collection and application installers. I often add new content from my laptop and I want to propagate it to my servers and then drop it locally. Doing this manually is tedious so I … Continue reading
podcastfs – mounting a podcast using fuse
This is one of my old projects that I still find cool and quite useful. It’ s a fuse filesystem for mounting a list of podcast feeds and allows any “stupid” music player to browse and play the content as … Continue reading
git-annex
git-annex is a tool for managing large files using git. Unlike how git is commonly used this system does not actually version the files themselves, instead it handles symbolic links to the files. git-annex provide a few very nice features … Continue reading
